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now we are honored to be joined by the
creative geniuses responsible for the
original songs from walt disney
animation studios frozen and frozen too
a big disney plus welcome to our guests
kristen anderson lopez and robert lopez
hi guys hi
we absolutely loved seeing your creative
process and into the unknown making
frozen two and so tell us a little bit
more about how you two work together
well it always starts with story and
character uh it's always making sure
that we are thinking the same way about
what the character is feeling um making
sure that the character is in a moment
that his or her feelings are so strong
she has to sing them instead of speak
them and also a decision a moment where
that emotion will turn into a decision
that continues the story forward right
and takes it to a place where it can't
ever turn back and we we do a lot of
talking finding um phrases and musical
phrases that might guide us and then by
the end of the discussion which i
usually
uh stop us from writing until we kind of
have the song just on a notebook and
then we just put the song together what
was the biggest difference between
writing music for frozen versus frozen
two
writing the music for frozen we were
actually still seeking the characters we
didn't know the personality of elsa or
anna or kristoff right there was a draft
where elsa was a villain and we had to
just erase that and start over we had
written a bunch of songs for those
characters but when we were doing frozen
two which is the sequel
the challenge we thought we knew the
characters but we really had to bring
them to a different place to give them
something new to sing about because if
we've done our job right for the first
one there's nothing left to sing about
the metaphor is if you do your job right
it's like you squeezed all of the
toothpaste out of the toothpaste tube
knowing that we had to write a sequel
meant we had to say like where is there
still toothpaste
and for frozen two
the toothpaste was is elsa really where
she belongs who is your favorite
character to write songs for and why i
guess for me it's elsa i really i enjoy
kind of having an excuse to become uber
feminine and
just powerful and
you know self self-evolving i love
writing for kristoff we we didn't get to
write for kristoff very much in the
first movie because he wasn't able to
feel his feelings enough to really sing
but this time around i loved writing an
80s ballad for that man
who was just learning to be in touch
with his own feelings i really had a
great time finding that right place
between goofy
and emotional so kristen bobby you have
created some iconic songs from both
frozen and frozen too so we thought we
would issue a little challenge we are
going to play a small snippet from one
of the songs from frozen or frozen two
and you have to guess what the song is
based on that snippet are you a game oh
yeah we love games this is gonna be fun
all right here we go here's the first
track
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that's a next right thing yeah that is
right
and it is a next right thing we're
frozen too
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i thought this was going to be a little
easier because there's our stuff but
that was very short okay
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reindeers are better than rangers aren't
better than people wow
yup people smell better than reindeers
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do you want to build a snowman yeah
that's from the middle part yes
do you wanna build a snowman
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that was me i was playing that oh really
nice i really loved playing a lot of
piano on frozen two alright let's see if
you can guess this one
that's some things number two that was
awesome
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yeah that's um
forever yeah yeah
there
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yes very correct yes
okay let's see if you can guess this one
that's into the unknown come on we got
to know that
okay last track and i think you're going
to guess this one
let it go
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i mean congratulations cause you got all
of that let's go you got all them right
you know your songs
very awesome we need nothing thank you
we need not sign off in shame well thank
you so much for your time we really do
appreciate it thank you guys that was so
much this was really fun that's great
use your ears and eyes to stream frozen
and frozen too on disney plus
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